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HCP Projects

Habitat Conservation Plan Highlights

The following projects highlight the diverse habitat conservation and restoration projects that we create and implement, to achieve the goals and requirements of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service approved Benton County Prairie Species Habitat Conservation Plan.

Fenders Blue Butterfly Prairie Conservation Sites

Annual Monitoring of butterfly populations.

Controlled burning and vegetation control to increase native nectar and host plants including the threatened Kincaid's Lupine.

Increasing Kincaid's Lupine population through seeding and transplanting.

Beazell Memorial Forest Upland Prairies

Controlled burning and vegetation control to increase native nectar and host plants for the endangered Taylor's Checkerspot Butterfly.

Annual monitoring of endangered butterfly populations that are only known to exist in Oregon within Benton County.

Increasing native nectar and host species within the prairies to support endangered butterflies and hundreds of other species.